SIX$ALC

Alcon Inc. · Q4 2023 earnings

Q4 2023 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

ALC Q4 2023 — extraction skipped

Alcon Inc. filed Form 6-K (accession 0001167379-24-000009) for Q4 2023, but headline financial numerics could not be extracted automatically: no headline numerics found by parser nor by Financial Datasets fallback. The row is marked as AI-processed so the queue advances; numerics will be filled by Financial Datasets on its next pass.

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Headline financials

Total Revenue

$2.33B

Previous: $2.16B+8.2%
EPS (adj)

$0.70

Previous: $0.42+66.7%
Net Income

$427M

No prior period
Operating Income

$454M

No prior period
Gross Profit

$1.35B

No prior period
R&D Expense

$219M

No prior period

Revenue & EPS history

Alcon · Revenue · Quarterly

$2.33B

Q4 2023+8.2%vs Q4 2022
Beat estimate in 8 of 16 quarters(50%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

Alcon · $5.12B total across 6 segments · Q1 2026

  • Surgical
    $1.46B
  • Vision Care
    $1.23B
  • Surgical — Consumables
    $769M
  • Vision Care — Contact lenses
    $738M
  • Vision Care — Ocular health
    $487M
  • Surgical — Implantables
    $438M

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q4 2023

Historical avgQ4 2023

+0.7%

Avg return

Earnings day

-1.8%

Avg return

5 days after

-1.5%

Avg return

30 days after

48%

13 / 27 earnings

Positive

+13.0%

Q2 2021

Best reaction

-8.9%

Q2 2025

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026+0.2%-34.4%-28.6%
Q3 2025+4.6%-1.0%+1.9%
Q2 2025-8.9%-10.4%-14.3%
Q1 2025+2.4%-4.2%-7.6%
Q3 2024-5.2%-7.7%-7.1%
Q2 2024-1.7%-0.2%+2.2%
Q1 2024+8.9%+8.3%+12.5%
Q4 2023+6.4%+7.7%+3.4%
Q3 2023-2.1%-2.1%+7.0%
Q2 2023-1.6%+1.4%+0.4%
Q1 2023+7.6%+6.0%+5.4%
Q4 2022-3.9%-3.7%-4.8%
Q3 2022+4.1%+3.1%+8.1%
Q2 2022-5.4%-7.9%-10.4%
Q1 2022+8.7%+10.0%+12.7%
Q4 2021+5.0%-0.6%-0.3%
Q3 2021-4.2%-5.9%-1.4%
Q2 2021+13.0%+13.9%+21.9%
Q1 2021-7.8%-7.6%-9.0%
Q4 2020-2.1%-4.4%-3.1%
Q3 2020-1.1%-0.3%-1.8%
Q2 2020-2.9%-4.9%-4.1%
Q1 2020+4.3%+5.0%+7.0%
Q4 2019+4.5%+1.4%-20.2%
Q3 2019-3.5%-3.8%-3.0%
Q2 2019-2.0%-5.1%-4.1%
Q1 2019+2.1%-0.4%-3.3%
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